Giving up meat for me - easy.
Giving up soda - Oh my god! Hard Work.
I switched to diet soda last year after a root canal and always heard little things about artificial sweeteners but never put much thought into it. After researching it recently on my new health obsession, I realized the awful things surrounding aspartame and similar sweeteners. Soda has always been my guilty pleasure :) .
This is day four and the caffeine withdrawal headaches are awful! Once I stop depending on it though, I know I'll be so much better off. I have been reading all of my labels lately and it's even in Crystal Light powders. I've been sticking to water, soy milk, and 100% juice.
Many sources list over 90 side effects from aspartame and describe it's FDA approval process as very suspicious. People close to me know I have a general distrust for the FDA anyways.
I don't want to go through and list 90 different side effects, but go ahead and search for it yourself if you weren't already aware of the associated problems.
Does anyone have any ideas for kicking a caffeine addiction?
(That clever graphic is from healingdaily.com)
